Comments on: Government Shutdown: An Overviewhttp://learning.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/04/06/government-shutdown-an-overview/
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By: US Soldierhttp://learning.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/04/06/government-shutdown-an-overview/comment-page-1/#comment-168493
Fri, 08 Apr 2011 20:10:00 +0000http://learning.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/04/06/government-shutdown-an-overview/#comment-168493Ridiculously chaotic is all I have to describe this. The fix is simple. Tax everyone at a flat 10% and I mean everyone with no loop holes or sneaky tax breaks the first year 8% the next, 6% the next, etc. For the majority, the poor and middle class, this wouldn’t affect them since they are used to the 30% anyway. The only people that would have a problem this is the minority, the rich, who have so many tax breaks and deductions that they practically get out of paying taxes. This expotentially reduce our deficit in short amount of time. But that doesn’t solve the problem completely. Government spending needs to reduced not by closing down schools and departments rather how we operate as a government. Highend planes, cars and offices with all the fancy trimmings and frequency of travel all add up at a sickening rate and amount. And lastly, collect on our loans and pay our debt! We loan so much and never collect. It doent happen like that in the real world. If I take out a loan the bank ensures I pay them back and they are not shy about it either why should we. That’s my globle view. On a more personal level view I have just this to say… Never would I ever thought that I would see US Soldiers on the ground actively engaging the enemy with the knowledge that their family, bills and overall financial situation could be jeapordized by stopping pay and then taxing them on the pay they didn’t even recieve, in the back of thier minds. And for what? Seriously, what are we thinking!
]]>By: USPROUDhttp://learning.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/04/06/government-shutdown-an-overview/comment-page-1/#comment-168229
Fri, 08 Apr 2011 16:06:17 +0000http://learning.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/04/06/government-shutdown-an-overview/#comment-168229Speaking as a veteran and wife of a veteran I am shocked at the decisions being made concerning the shut down or that they would even consider one. I am a full time mom and if we had a change in our income I wouldn’t say, “Oh, well, we spent too much money so we will just have to not eat for the next week or two so we can get caught up”. That would be crazy. Kind of like what the government is doing right now. I am sure there are plenty of think tanks that could come up with a better solution. How about cutting back all the trips the government officials take for a while. I am sure people will understand if they don’t visit for a month to save the American people some money. Or if they really must make the government employees suffer for their oversights, how about just taking 1% of every government employees check, and I mean everyone, for a while until they get caught up. I would certainly be willing to do that than to lose my job and I am certain many others would too. Don’t shut parks and other offices down just take a cut of their income for a set amount of time. There are so many ways you can make adjustments and not have to cut things completely out. It’s called a budget, I’m sure you’ve heard of that. It means to plan in advance the expenditure of or to subsist on or live within a budget. I have not even said anything about the effect this would have on so many families, the elderly, our soldiers overseas, and the economy. That would take all day. I know that when I signed up, I did it proudly ready to give my life, everything, for my country. I just didn’t think they would try to take it all away like this. Regardless if it is one week or one month, the point is that they think so little of us as to take away our livelihood and leave us high and dry to try and survive on our own. I hope that someone up there will find their conscience and realize that this will devastate so many people in so many ways. Use your common sense, listen to that little voice. God gave it to you for a reason. God bless American and God bless our government.
]]>By: Thomas Murphyhttp://learning.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/04/06/government-shutdown-an-overview/comment-page-1/#comment-167261
Thu, 07 Apr 2011 00:40:00 +0000http://learning.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/04/06/government-shutdown-an-overview/#comment-167261Move outta the country, intelligent people: your kind is not wanted or needed here. Your government is filled with confused, selfish, witless, money-grubbing, self-centered old fiends and the young conservatives who are trying to outdo them. There is a very good chance that the new breed of congressional conservatives will do just that. And things will get worse…and worse…and worse. Leave the country before it falls apart. Amen.
]]>By: Barbarahttp://learning.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/04/06/government-shutdown-an-overview/comment-page-1/#comment-167123
Wed, 06 Apr 2011 18:33:25 +0000http://learning.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/04/06/government-shutdown-an-overview/#comment-167123Why don’t we ask the lead administrators/heads of state and members of Congress to stop giving themselves raises and to contribute some of their benefits and perks to the government, as a starter? Subject themselves to the same living conditions as the American people they are, in theory, expected to represent?
]]>By: runia_csbhttp://learning.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/04/06/government-shutdown-an-overview/comment-page-1/#comment-167057
Wed, 06 Apr 2011 17:44:52 +0000http://learning.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/04/06/government-shutdown-an-overview/#comment-167057Federal agenciese cant spend money that congress hasn’t approved. If the govt shut down, the Smithsonian and Yellowstone would probably close. Govt employees that are deemed non-essential would probably lose their jobs. The govt shut down in 1995 and in 1996. The govt would potentially shut down because congress has not approved any spending budgets for the next year.
]]>By: Higinbotham_CSBhttp://learning.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/04/06/government-shutdown-an-overview/comment-page-1/#comment-167055
Wed, 06 Apr 2011 17:43:53 +0000http://learning.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/04/06/government-shutdown-an-overview/#comment-167055I don’t really know what it would effect if the government does shut down but I do know that it would be a miss.

We would be affected and so would the other countries we support.

One was in the 1990’s and the other was from 1995-1996

When the government is not being funded and then it results into a shut down government.

I think it is because we are trying to figure out the budget cost problems for schools.

I don’t really like it, its all kind of scary but we all have our opinions.